books.google.ca - If any writer can be said to have invented the modern short story, it is Anton Chekhov. It is not just that Chekhov democratized this art form; more than that, he changed the thrust of short fiction from relating to revealing. And what marvelous and unbearable things are revealed in these Forty Stories....https://books.google.ca/books/about/Forty_Stories.html?id=F8AvHaFnRPoC&q=face&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareForty Stories